How does root read its mail in Ubuntu?

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Wed Jun 18 10:26:56 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:24:07PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Various daemon processes send messages to root at localhost.  How can I
> > read that mail?
> >
> > In a RedHat system, I'd su - to root, and run pine.
> >
> > In the Ubuntu framework, what is recommended?
> >
> > pj
> >
> >   
>     Do sudo apt-get install pine and do the same thing.
> 
Except that pine is not in the repositories...

Alpine is though.

BTW Karl, did you happen to check before posting?

Peter
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